A Minnesota woman stabbed her 13-year-old son to death and attacked her ex-husband with a 7-inch kitchen knife in a Burlingame hills home the morning of Feb. 24, 2002, leaving police baffled about the motive.
25 years of the Daily Journal — 2002
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